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Maciej Kania

@kaniamaciej.bsky.social
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Computational neuroscience PhD candidate Vogels Group @ ISTA ÖAW-DOC Fellow 🧠🏳️‍🌈

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in-code.bsky.social @in-code.bsky.social · 12h
A big thank you to everyone who contributed to making the IN-CODE Symposium in Freiburg such a memorable event. It was a pleasure to bring together this wonderful community working on inhibition—from synapses and microcircuits to behaviour. #INCODEsymposium
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Maciej Kania @kaniamaciej.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm gonna talk about our recent work on #inhgrams tomorrow afternoon at the @in-code.bsky.social inhibitory neuron symposium in Freiburg! 🪩😋 Come see it it! Link to the preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... And the program: sfb-trr384.de/symposium/
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UniReps @unireps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🔵🔴 Join us for the 4th edition of UniReps on December 12, 2026, in Paris! Working on these or similar topics? Submit your paper by the extended deadline: October 10 (AoE) Submit at: t.co/lA6ci1epeF full CFP: t.co/EvBFdvZfLu
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Matthijs Pals @matthijspals.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What kind of dynamics underlie sequence working memory? In the last project of my PhD we developed and analysed RNNs fitted to multi-session single-unit data of macaques. Now out on: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... With @jakhmack.bsky.social and data from Chen et al., Neuron 2024. [1/4]
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Matthijs Pals @matthijspals.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What are the dynamics underlying sequence working memory? To found out, we develop and analyse RNNs fitted to multi-session single-unit data of macaques. See my talk Wed 12:00, at @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social. With @jakhmack.bsky.social @mackelab.bsky.social Data from Chen et al., Neuron 2024.
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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here are the lab’s posters at #bernstein26. Please come visit and ask us all the pesky questions!
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Maciej Kania @kaniamaciej.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rise and shine ✨🌞 it's day 2 🥳
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Maciej Kania @kaniamaciej.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Starting in 2h!! 🤠🌞
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Maciej Kania @kaniamaciej.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Train your model on a task, or fit it to biological data? And once it's optimized, what does it tell us about the brain? 🧠 In our #BernsteinConference satellite workshop, we'll discuss these questions through the lenses of different optimization methods. Check it out in Room 3.104! 🤓😉
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Douglas Tomé @douglasftome.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How do we make sense of distributed, brain-wide neural representations? What do they compute, and how? In our #BernsteinConference workshop, we’ll tackle this through a combination of data-driven modeling and theory-guided experiments. Join the discussion on Monday 28.09 at 2:00 pm in Room 2.104!
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Torben Ott @torbenottlab.org · 02/09/2026
#Psilocybin🍄 shifts visual cortex dynamics towards a state of surprise! Thrilled to share our work w/ OpenScope at @alleninstitute.org lead by postdoc @roberto-defilippo.bsky.social. We combined visual change detection w/ Neuropixels recordings in mice to uncover how psilocybin changes circuits 1/
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Maciej Kania @kaniamaciej.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Train your model on a task, or fit it to biological data? And once it's optimized, what does it tell us about the brain? 🧠 In our #BernsteinConference satellite workshop, we'll discuss these questions through the lenses of different optimization methods. Check it out in Room 3.104! 🤓😉
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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In the paper at hand, doi.org/10.64898/202..., @ncondruz.bsky.social, with @blufzzz.bsky.social and @chaichinta.bsky.social, shows that only one! extra ingredient is enough for a more complete repertoire: Nonlinearity! Check it out!
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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
2 tweeprints to go. Good morning! If you've moved already today, you probably asked yourself: how? How did I even get up? Not the hangover. How does your nervous system orchestrate your muscles so well? We've been asking ourselves, too: How can fixed networks produce so many firing patterns?
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Yoav Ger @yoavger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Excited to share that our work, "Learning Reveals Invisible Structure in Low-Rank RNNs", has been selected for an 𝗢𝗿𝗮𝗹 presentation (top 1%) at #NeurIPS 2026! 🎉 Very grateful for this special recognition, and even more grateful to my incredible co-author and mentor Omri Barak.
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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 24/09/2026
Last chance to get your SNUFA spiking neural network abstracts in, deadline tomorrow. Only 300 words and get a chance to give a talk in front of an audience of hundreds (plus YouTube upload gets hundreds more). snufa.net/2026/ And don't forget to register for the conference too. Tell your friends!
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Spiking Neural Networks As Universal Function Approximators
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Guillaume Bellec @bellecguill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I have a postdoc position open in my NeuroAi lab in Vienna 👌👾🧪🧠 And I will be at Bernstein (workshop only), please reach out if you are interested
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Maciej Kania @kaniamaciej.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🏓🏓🏓🧠🧠🧠✨✨✨
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Chaitanya Chintaluri @chaichinta.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nicolas Copernicus set our world in motion. Now, Nicoleta Condruz sets YOU-a neural circuit- in motion. In a string of pearl-like math tricks, she constructs random matrices that give her the controls to make you move, stop, dance, or repeat forever. WHAT A DEBUT! My new favorite scientist!
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Jake Watson @jakefwatson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our new team studying human circuit function @researchmar.bsky.social is looking for a PhD student! If you or anyone you know would be interested to learn more about this, our plans, previous work, or other positions, visit humancircuits.net or get in touch! #humancircuits
Advert for a 4-year funded PhD position at Hospital del Mar Research Institute, Barcelona. Text reads: "How do human cells and synapses give rise to computations? Can we understand how they change in patient epilepsy?" Background shows a photo of the institute and a human hippocampal slice image
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Soledad Gonzalo Cogno @soledad-gcogno.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
📣 🔥 🤩 Our lab is recruiting a PhD student! If you want to do a PhD in computational neuroscience come and join us at the @kavlintnu.bsky.social ! 🧠 💻 For questions and info, the lab will be at Bernstein in a few days 😊 ⏰ Apply before October 11: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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PhD in Computational Neuroscience (307990) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Job title: PhD in Computational Neuroscience (307990), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, October 11, 2026
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A decade ago, a “weird” kitten was found on a road near a Bolivian forest. Too small to be a housecat, he had a scrunched-up face, short round ears, long whiskers, & a coat of leopard-like spots. DNA analysis now reveals him as the very first of a newly discovered species & I think I'm in love. 😻🧬🧪👇
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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Our latest issue is out! 👇 www.cell.com/current-biol... The xxx cover: Love & Death — killer flies at it on a flower petal💓💓💓
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Maciej Kania @kaniamaciej.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Yaaaaaaaaay it was so much fun! c:
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ania 🌻 @azlesniewska.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
An entire symposium about sleep and the markers of its various phenomena, viewed through the lens of (M)EEG studies... how cool is that???
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Canadian Association for Neuroscience @canacn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New opportunity posted: Postdoctoral Fellow in Hippocampal Circuit Mechanisms of Memory - Topolnik Laboratory, Université Laval, can-acn.org/postdoctoral... #neurojobs
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Hippocampal Circuit Mechanisms of Memory – Canadian Association for Neuroscience
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Richard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🧪🔭🧠🤖 X 🥐🥖🧀🍷 Contributions using or developing simulators across the sciences x ML are welcome!
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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026
If you are interested in nervous system evolution you may want to read our review with Kei Jokura on nerve nets: "Revisiting nerve nets: functional organization and evolutionary implication" link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s… […] [Original post on biologists.social]
Figure showing different Erdős–Rényi-type random graphs with different preferential attachment, resulting in increasingly modular graphs. Images of Syncytial nerve net of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis, Schematic of an incision experiment carried out by Romanes on the scyphosoan medusa Aurelia,  Schematic of the localised spread of activity in a hydrozoan nerve net, where different non-overlapping nerve nets mediate distinct behaviours. The hydromedusa Aglantha digitale with its giant motor system shows a centralised arrangement.
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Maciej Kania @kaniamaciej.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
You seem pretty sad for a girl so in... Lisbon!! It took only 4.5 x Olivia Rodrigo's new album to get here. But now, sooo excited for the Brain Prize - comp neuro course! 🤓🧠 @cajal-training.bsky.social
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Jake Watson @jakefwatson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
We have a new preprint! By studying neuronal heterogeneity in CA3, we found a weird but powerful new feature in the hippocampal circuitry! 🧠 #neuroskyence 🧵.. Morse-Mora et al. | Hippocampal CA3 forms a two-layer network of molecularly distinct cell types in mice and humans doi.org/10.64898/202...
Mouse hippocampal slice with deep cells labelled blue, patch-clamp recorded cells in yellow, and deep CA3 projections labelled purple
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Hippocampal CA3 forms a two-layer network of molecularly distinct cell types in mice and humans www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Roxana Zeraati @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Only one week left until our PhD application deadline @mpicybernetics.bsky.social. If you’re interested in the intersection of RL, RNNs, and analyses of neural & behavioral data from novel, cross-species foraging experiments, make sure to submit your application by June 15! #NeuroJobs More info👇
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 05/06/2026
In the 60s, an eccentric behavioral psychologist named James McConnell pureed a bunch of worms and fed them to other worms. For years after, he claimed that the cannibal worms learned the ground-up worms’ memories. Could he have been… right? www.quantamagazine.org/are-memories...
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Are Memories Transferable — or Edible? | Quanta Magazine
In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation. Columnist Claire L. Evans follows the neuroscientists who attempted to recapture the magic.
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Maciej Kania @kaniamaciej.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Last Friday, as the Neuro Track Reps at @istaresearch.bsky.social, we hosted a symposium for the neurocommunity here and for the grad students to showcase their PhD work-in-progress! 🤓 Hope it becomes a tradition now! 🥳✌🏼
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David Vijatovic, PhD @neurodave.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Excited to share that the main project from my PhD is now out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social! 📄 www.cell.com/cell-reports... @istaresearch.bsky.social
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Multifold increase in spinal inhibitory cell types with emergence of limb movement
Frog metamorphosis reveals how spinal circuits adapt to new motor demands. Vijatovic et al. demonstrate that the shift from tail- to limb-based locomotion coincides with expansion and diversification ...
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Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) @istaresearch.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Science thrives when people are free: free to question, challenge, and belong. ISTA stands firmly with the LGBTQIA+ community, not only in June, but every day. Your identity is not a barrier to excellence. It is part of the brilliance you bring. Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Maciej Kania @kaniamaciej.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Two big protests happening today: one in Vienna, against the cuts in budget for science, and another one in Warsaw with petition to spend 3% of GDP on science. Scary to see that one has to fight for the science to survive&thrive but motivating to see many people who still care about it :)
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Maciej Kania @kaniamaciej.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Post-submission chillmaxing 🏝️🌈
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Maciej Kania @kaniamaciej.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
#Neuronus2026 gurom! 🧠 neuronusforum.pl
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Jake Watson @jakefwatson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
If you are interested in circuit development - Victor Vargas-Barroso‘s thorough work on CA3 is now online. He shows surprising synaptic properties and circuit arrangement in the early postnatal hippocampus! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Developmental emergence of sparse and structured synaptic connectivity in the hippocampal CA3 memory circuit - Nature Communications
Using multicellular patch-clamp recording, the authors show that the hippocampal CA3 autoassociative network undergoes pruning of CA3–CA3 synapses and downregulation of synaptic efficacy during postna...
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
told a group of four year olds at the playground today the news that there was humongous octopus that ate dinosaurs and they absolutely lost their minds www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Earliest octopuses were giant top predators in Cretaceous oceans
Top predators drive changes in ecosystem structure. For the last ~370 million years, large-sized vertebrates have dominated the apex of the marine food chain, while invertebrates have served as smalle...
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Andrea Navas-Olive @acnavasolive.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
If you are interested in systems neuroscience, learning about data analysis, or understanding how the conceptualization of analyses can influence results, join us for the Brainhack satellite event at #FENS2026! More info at: pre-fens-brainhack.github.io/brainhack2026/
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Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) @istaresearch.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
ISTA campus is blooming into spring. 🌸 #ISTAresearch #spring #blossoms
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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 03/04/2026
Wanna do neuroscience in Paris but can't find interesting lab? Want to come do a sabbatical but don't know who to collaborate? Check this webpage aggregating ~all the neuroscience labs (+200) in Paris. ⚠️only the information of 'verified' profiles is reliable⚠️ Please retweet 🙏 parisneuro.fr
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The digital sphinx: Can a worm brain control a fly body? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Nastya Krouglova @anastasiakrouglova.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Our paper “Multifidelity Simulation-based Inference for Computationally Expensive Simulators” has been accepted at ICLR 2026! 🥳 We hope this can be a practical solution for anyone analysing and doing inference on computationally expensive simulators. Paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=bj0dc...
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Sjors Scheres @sjorsscheres.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗 beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
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Biological Laboratory | LEGO® Ideas
This is a two-floor realistic Biological Laboratory building. In this design, I try to tell stories about biologists, introduce biology concepts to general publ…
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Gaute Einevoll @gauteeinevoll.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Episode #38 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On extracting spiking network models from experiments - with Richard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn38 How to fit spiking network models to experimental data when there is no unique parameter set giving the best fit.
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Maciej Kania @kaniamaciej.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
New dino drop 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️
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Jesper Sjöström @pjsjostrom.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
🧪🧠 New preprint: helping resolve a decades-long debate in synaptic plasticity NMDA receptors are central to Hebbian learning. Yet for >30 years, the existence and function of presynaptic NMDA receptors have remained controversial. 📄 doi.org/10.64898/202... 1/6
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